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- English Word Millennialism Definition Alt. of Millenniarism
- English Word Millennialist Definition One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.
- English Word Millenniarism Definition Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
- English Word Millennist Definition One who believes in the millennium.
- English Word Millennium Definition A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.
- English Word Milleped Definition A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
- English Word Millepora Definition A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.
- English Word Millepore Definition Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.
- English Word Milleporite Definition A fossil millepore.
- English Word Miller Definition One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
- English Word Miller Definition A milling machine.
- English Word Miller Definition A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.
- English Word Miller Definition The eagle ray.
- English Word Miller Definition The hen harrier.
- English Word Millerite Definition A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.
- English Word Millerite Definition A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; -- sometimes called hair pyrites.
- English Word Millesimal Definition Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
- English Word Millet Definition The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
- English Word Milli- Definition A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampere.
- English Word Milliampere Definition The thousandth part of one ampere.